Thu, 15 August 2019
Hello and welcome to.... THE FECTACULAR! Yes, this is the century, the big one-zero-zero, the 100-not-out, the five-score... and widely rumoured to be the last ever Front End Chatter podcast with him, Martin Fitz-Gibbons, and him, Simon Hargreaves, loins girded by the veritable cod-piece of motorcycling on the web, bikesocial.co.uk, and Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists. And in this very special live-in-front-of-an-audience-in-the-canteen-at-Cadwell-Parkingtons (although we sound like we're actually in the toilet; do we look like sound engineers?) we have:
Thanks to everyone who came along to Cadwell to make the FECtacular truly special, and contributed to a small moment of something. And if you’ve downloaded Front End Chatter in the last five years, thank you. Thanks also to bikesocial.co.uk and Bennetts for their enduring good humour and tolerance of a pair of chattering idiots, and please download Front End Chatter via bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/news-and-views/features/podcasts We’re on Twitter at @Mufga and @SimonHbikes, and occasionally elsewhere... See your ears for FEC101 soon... or will we? Yeah, go on then. |
Tue, 6 August 2019
Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 99, the Nearly-But-Not-Quite episode brought to your ears in cahoots with the best biking website on the, er, web – bikesocial.co.uk – and the best biking insurers in the, er, universe, Bennetts. And for your delectation:
PLUS!
AND! Your emails, including...
Thanks for listening!
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Wed, 24 July 2019
Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 98, the One Less Than Jorge episode, verbalised and spuffed into noughts and ones with the roadside assistance of bikesocial.co.uk and their insuring overlords Bennetts, the bike insurance guys and gals. And it’s a short and sweet episode this week, as we clear the FECsack in preparation for FEC100 (live at Cadwell Park near Louth, Lincs, on Tuesday Aug 13th), including:
Thanks for listening!
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Thu, 18 July 2019
Apologies for the late arrival of FEC#97 – delayed by unexpected items in the bagging area – but now it’s here, let’s tuck in! Brought to you as always by the furiously febrile funkateers at bikesocial.co.uk and the bike-insuring bike insurers Bennetts, this week’s regurgitation of previously held opinions includes:
PLUS! Listeners’ emails, including:
...and introducing our new bike-buying advice section, VFECR800 Corner, including:
Thanks for listening!
...and follow @SimonHbikes and @Mufga on the Twitters, Instas etc
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Sun, 30 June 2019
Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter E96, the world’s most favouritist biking podcast, supported as ever by bikesocial.co.uk and Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists. Rambling gossip this month includes:
1) Ducati’s Streetfighter V4, with added wings 2) KTM’s 790 Adventure R Rally with added springs 3) Triumph Rocket III TFC with added torques
Thanks for listening, please: a) tell your friends, relatives, work-mates and even people you don’t really like about Front End Chatter b) visit www.bikesocial.co.uk for your FEC fix and biking info c) try Bennetts for your biking and travel insurance d) email your thoughts, ideas, questions and rants to anything@frontendchatter.com e) come to the FECtacular FEC100 episode live from Cadwell Park on August 13th (alongside a Bennetts track day) f) find Simon and Martin on the social mediums here: @SimonHbikes @Mufga
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Tue, 18 June 2019
Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter and the 95th outing for Britain’s most stubbornly random motorcycling podcast, suspended as ever between the 48mm upsidedowners of bikesocial.co.uk – the world of motorcycling in a webby nutshell – and the fully adjustable monoshock of Bennetts, the bike insurance experts.
Thank you so much or listening, we really appreciate it – and please email your thoughts, ideas, questions and stories of helmet paint scheme inspired accusations to anything@frontendchatter.com
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Fri, 31 May 2019
Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter Episode 94, and the clue’s in the name: for the 94th time, two hoary old motorcycle journalists stand around and make front noises into a pair of microphones for your auralisation – fertilised and fermented by bikescocial.co.uk (the world of motorcycling on a website) and Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists. Good old Bennetts. And this week we have, for your listening infuriation:
anything@frontendchatter.com @Mufga
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Wed, 15 May 2019
Hello, good morning and welcome to Front End Chatter, E93 in the long-running series of two men talking bobbins about bikes, and if you're looking for someone to blame try bikesocial.co.uk, the bike magazine on the web, or Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists, because they're in it as much as we are.
This week on FEC we have: • the experience of Yamaha's Off Road Experience • what off-road bike should you get for you wife, except it's really for you? • are bike vloggers the new bike journalists? |
Tue, 30 April 2019
Look out, it’s Front End Chatter E92, the biking podcast enabled, empowered, energised and veritably triggered by the cosmonauts at bikesocial.co.uk and bods at Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists, without whom this would all still happen but much less often. And this week we have:
Thank you to you, to BikeSocial.co.uk, to Bennetts, and see you at Cadwell Park on August 13th. Please email thoughts, questions and comments to: anything@frontendchatter.com @SimonHbikes @Mufga
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Thu, 25 April 2019
Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter E91, the nearly-but-not-quite episode, supported, enabled and triggered by www.bikesocial.co.uk – or is it just bikesocial.co.uk? – and Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists. • A half-naked Lorenzo adds to his list of embarrassing advert • World Superbike’s Dave Bautista demonstrates it’s easier to adapt from a V4 MotoGP bike to a V4 WSB bike than from a V-twin WSB bike to a V4 WSB bike... • Brief chats about Husqvarana’s Svartpilen 701 – a KTM 690 Duke in a frock or chainsaw on wheels? – Yamaha’s Tracer/Ténéré 700 GT and BMW’s new R1250R... • Custom-moulded ear-plugs v foam plugs? • How Fairy Liquid solves visor misting • How to approach your first road race • Why aren’t more bike journalists nicked riding like idiots on foreign launches? • Why riding more makes you enjoy riding more • Is Yamaha’s Niken the perfect camera bike for filming cycle racing? • Why seat height isn’t actually a good measure of the height of the seat... • ...and so much less. I mean more. More. Much more. anything@frontendchatter.com @SimonHBikes @Mufga
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